NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

Around 33% higher pipelines: 256 vs 192
Around 17% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 1536 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Pipelines	256 vs 192
Maximum memory size	1792 MB vs 1536 MB
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Around 63% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 475 MHz
Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 24.8 billion / sec vs 15.2 GTexel / s
Around 22% better floating-point performance: 595.2 gflops vs 486.4 gflops
Around 89% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 142 Watt

Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	24.8 billion / sec vs 15.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	595.2 gflops vs 486.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 142 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
PassMark - G3D Mark		1261
PassMark - G2D Mark		261
Geekbench - OpenCL		4924
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		13.598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		404.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		25.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		44.123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3341
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF100	GF116
Launch date	12 June 2011	30 May 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199
Place in performance rating	not rated	1171
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	775 MHz
Floating-point performance	486.4 gflops	595.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	256	192
Texture fill rate	15.2 GTexel / s	24.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	142 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	1,170 million
CUDA cores		192
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1792 MB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	89.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2808 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus